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NBC Cameraman Covering The Ebola Outbreak In Liberia Tests Positive For The Virus

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Now that the seal has been broken, the American Ebola cases are coming fast and furious, and a few days after the first case of the deadly disease made its way to US soil, overnight we learned that an American cameraman helping to cover the Ebola outbreak in Liberia for NBC News has tested positive for the virus and will be flown back to the United States for treatment.

The news broke late last night, when NBC reported that the freelancer, Ashoka Mukpo, 33, was hired Tuesday to be a second cameraman for NBC News Chief Medical Editor and Correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman. Snyderman is with three other NBC News employees on assignment in Monrovia, reporting on the Ebola outbreak.

Mukpo came down with symptoms on Wednesday, feeling tired and achy. As part of a routine temperature check, he discovered he was running a slight fever. He immediately quarantined himself and sought medical advice. On Thursday morning, Mukpo went to a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) treatment center to be tested for the virus. The positive result came back just under 12 hours later.

"The good news is this young man, our colleague, was admitted very, very early," Snyderman told Rachel Maddow Thursday evening. "He's in good spirits." The better news is that he was isolated while still offshore, meaning he will enter the US under controlled terms.

Snyderman added she and the other members of the NBC News team are feeling well and not showing symptoms of the Ebola virus but are going beyond CDC guidelines for their and others' safety.

Mukpo will be the fifth American infected with Ebola and evacuated from West Africa. He has been working in Liberia on various projects for the past three years.

"The doctors are optimistic about his prognosis," Mukpo's father, Mitchell Levy, said in a message to family and friends. Levy said his son, who also is a writer, "has been engaged with human rights work in West Africa for the last several years. When the Ebola outbreak occurred he felt compelled to return to Liberia to help shed light on how the crisis was being handled socially and politically."

In a note to staff, NBC News President Deborah Turness said: "We are doing everything we can to get him the best care possible. He will be flown back to the United States for treatment at a medical center that is equipped to handle Ebola patients.

"We are also taking all possible measures to protect our employees and the general public," Turness added in the note. "The rest of the crew, including Dr. Nancy, are being closely monitored and show no symptoms or warning signs. However, in an abundance of caution, we will fly them back on a private charter flight and then they will place themselves under quarantine in the United States for 21 days — which is at the most conservative end of the spectrum of medical guidance."

American aid workers Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol were infected in July while working for Samaritan’s Purse in Monrovia. Last month, Dr. Rick Sacra was diagnosed with the virus after working at a local hospital in Liberia. A U.S. physician who had been working for the World Health Organization and who has not been named is being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan is currently being treated for Ebola at a hospital in Dallas. In addition, a U.S. physician who was exposed to Ebola in Sierra Leone is under observation at the National Institutes of Health.

Here is the full text of Turness’ note to NBC News staff:

As you know, Dr. Nancy Snyderman and our news team are in Liberia covering the Ebola outbreak. One of the members of their crew is an American freelance cameraman who has worked in Liberia for the past three years and has recently been covering the epidemic for US media outlets. On Tuesday he began working with our team. Today, he tested positive for Ebola.

 

We are doing everything we can to get him the best care possible. He will be flown back to the United States for treatment at a medical center that is equipped to handle Ebola patients. We are consulting with the CDC, Medicins Sans Frontieres and others. And we are working with Dr. Nancy on the ground in Liberia.

 

We are also taking all possible measures to protect our employees and the general public. The rest of the crew, including Dr. Nancy, are being closely monitored and show no symptoms or warning signs. However, in an abundance of caution, we will fly them back on a private charter flight and then they will place themselves under quarantine in the United States for 21 days – which is at the most conservative end of the spectrum of medical guidance.

 

We know you share our concern for our colleagues and we will continue to keep you up to date and informed. Please don't hesitate to reach out to me or David Verdi with any questions.

 

Deborah

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Fri, 10/03/2014 - 06:53 | 5283665 jubber
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Ebola or Decapitation, bit of a dilemma for these frontline Journalists

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:13 | 5283701 Took Red Pill
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Dr. Nancy Snyderman, yeah she's the one who keeps telling us we don't need to worry.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:49 | 5283768 lovemesomeZH
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DOES ANYONE KNOW IF ANY WHITE PEOPLE HAVE CONTACTED EBOLA AND DIED FROM THE DISEASE? ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE THAT CAME BACK TO AMERICA  WITH EBOLA WERE CURED, YET THE BLACKS ARE DEAD. DOES LUIS FARRAKKHAN KNOW SOMETHING?

 

 

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Minister_Louis_Farrakhan_9/article_101804.shtml

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:54 | 5283781 negative rates
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Hey you did a real good job over there mr. MSM man, now come home get paid and give us your results.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:13 | 5283871 daveeemc2
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Dont worry - when it hits our soil the privileged few have everything under control.

 

 

And no, trreatment does nothing in inactivate ebola.

 

Bon appetit.

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:32 | 5283928 COSMOS
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Dr. Nancy Snyderman, yeah she's the one who keeps telling us we don't need to worry.

Yeah like every other dual citizen, that is their favorite saying, Greenspan comes to mind also and all the other morons.

So this virus also is in the bloodstream.  Who will quarantine the mosquitoes?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:35 | 5283946 StackShinyStuff
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I hope that smug little cunt gets it.  She was the one pushing the pig vax back in 2009.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:49 | 5284009 Save_America1st
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off topic, but I don't care...

look at the massive volume that just tanked the paper silver just now and it's under 17/oz once again! 

Massive spike in volume over 300,000.  Love it.  Stack up that phyzz, bitchez!

and FYI, supplies in huge shortage right now and there has been record setting sales of silver Eagles again in the last few days.  Premiums have spiked up as well and there are now delivery delays of up to 2 or more weeks. 

Get your orders placed now for phyzz.  You can wait to see if it drops to 16 or 15 or 10, but at the same time there won't be any supply and premiums might spike to 25% or higher just to off-set the downward paper price manipulation, so don't fucking wait to add to your stacks. 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:57 | 5284062 StackShinyStuff
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Yes - noticed premiums at my preferred dealer are starting to creep up.  Still pretty low but noteworthy that they are moving.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:14 | 5284719 Four chan
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nancy is going to get it too, the way that stupid taxi driver was in her face spraying his story. i guess if you're going to do a last story, this is the way exposing how tailor made africa and africans are made for ebola. the filth, close quarters, incomprehensibly stupid mindset. it's the perfect storm.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:03 | 5285215 macholatte
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The first thing to do with a contageous disease is to isolate it.

 

1. Stop ALL air traffic into the US and EU from Africa.

 

What's so hard to understand about that??

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:30 | 5284773 Tsukato
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Just look at this guys picture. That nose, those cunning eyes. He's trying to have that "laid back hippy, can you dig me" look, but I'm not buying it. I don't believe his story, or the one coming from NBC. He just looks like a cunt up to no good.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:49 | 5284021 Eeyores Enigma
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What I want to know is HOW did he contract it? Going down on Liberian hoes?

They say it is very difficult to contract, direct contact with fluids. Thats either BS or these guys are playing fast and loose.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:38 | 5284319 Dr Strangemember
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I agree... he wasn't a health worker, shouldn't have been touching dead bodies,...  

So is this a clear example of this virus going airborne?  Is that why they don't even touch on the subject in the article?  WTF??

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:06 | 5285882 mkkby
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At least NBC is acting like responsible adults.  Getting their people out and quarantine for 21 days. 

Fuck Obama and the USSR gov infrastucture.  They'll be just as incompetent and careless as they were for katrina and every other thing they do.  There's just one kenyan who I hope gets ebola and dies suffering.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:37 | 5284322 Anusocracy
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Hopefully some infected restaurant worker where he ate spit in his food.

Or used some other bodily fluids.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:12 | 5284450 Winston Churchill
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I don't know if it still happens, but big blocks of ice used to be dragged along the road,not

on skids, for delivery.

Want ice with your drink ?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:34 | 5284545 Dr Strangemember
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Maybe he went to a Ruby Tuesday's and ate from the Salad (ummm, Ebola) Bar?  Just spitballin' here folks...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:08 | 5285891 mkkby
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Or a cruise ship.  We know how clean they are.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:57 | 5284642 Kirk2NCC1701
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As seen in Fight Club, the movie?

If someone in the hotel or catering business does get it and they just can't stay in isolation, I sure hope they share their pain with the scum on Wall St. Go after GS, and add that secret Ingredient to to Lobster Bisque. LOL.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:10 | 5284444 RaceToTheBottom
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Must be something about his camera that attracts ebola.  Hmmm, Nikon or Canon?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:32 | 5284532 Dr Strangemember
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Dual Citizen?  Does that make her a Bi-Lesbian?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 17:52 | 5286601 forensicator
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cosmos, that has to be the coment of the month: So this virus also is in the bloodstream.  Who will quarantine the mosquitoes?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:16 | 5284703 whirling tword ...
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What is scary is that this thing has a contagion (sp?) rate of over 2 in W. Africa.... 1.8 in countries where they're doing contact tracking.... so, let's do some very simple math.... we'll use 2 since it's easy...  so, every person that gets it infects 2 people:

irb(main):003:0* 2**10
=> 1024
irb(main):004:0> 2**15
=> 32768
irb(main):005:0> 2**20
=> 1048576
irb(main):006:0> 2**25
=> 33554432
irb(main):007:0> 2**30
=> 1073741824

so, on the 10th generation of the 21 day incubation period only 1024 people have contracted the virus since 2**10 = 1024 but, look at the 15th generation at 32,768... then the 30th generation with 1.07 billion having it....  

Now, it hasn't taken off in the US or Europe yet but, if or when it takes hold, the above numbers will be accurate.... to get to the 30th generation is less than 2yrs... but, we don't have that many people in the US anyway.  lol

Finish up your preps before everyone else figures this out.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:18 | 5284734 Government need...
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But, but, but it's difficult to contract Ebola, and we've got double plus good procedures here in the US.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:38 | 5284800 whirling tword ...
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/airborne_transmission_of_ebola.ht...

LOL... yep... nothing to panic about.... monkeys 10 feet from an infected one got it and N95 masks and goggles don't seem to stop it either...  nothing to see there at all...  move along.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:30 | 5285532 Kirk2NCC1701
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The moment they started flying infected Ebola people to the US/West, it BECAME Airborne -- thanks to US Carriers: AA, Delta, United, US Air, USAF, DOD, CIA.

Is there ANY legitimate reason why they could not have set up REGIONAL Labs -- preferably offshore, given that they are lots of Oil Rigs offshore and an established Supply Chain for food, gear and meds?  Having a container-ship circling nearby is all they need.

This level of Bungling and Incompetence is NOT possible, w/o deliberate intervention1 at key/select places by Interests/Powers who are working off a different Agenda than being published.  It's like the build-up to 9/11 or Lehman in 2008, all over again.

1. ALL modern Security Systems are built upon the statistical basis of security:  A Series of Gates and Filters, each with its own level of Probabilistic likelihood of security. At each stage you a small but finite chance of getting through to the stage.  But, arranged is Series, to overall odds go waaaay down.  It is exactly like picking the winning lottery numbers in a 6/49 Lottery:  You have to pick the 6 correct numbers, where the odds for picking each correct one are quite small (1 in in 49 for the first one, and 1 in 43 for the last one), but the cumulative odds become astronomic.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:13 | 5283872 daveeemc2
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Dont worry - when it hits our soil the privileged few have everything under control.

 

 

And no, trreatment does nothing in inactivate ebola.

 

Bon appetit.

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:14 | 5283873 daveeemc2
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Dont worry - when it hits our soil the privileged few have everything under control.

 

 

And no, trreatment does nothing in inactivate ebola.

 

Bon appetit.

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:54 | 5283782 SilverIsKing
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Well then, some whites with Ebola will now have to be sacrificed in order to achieve fairness.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:00 | 5283811 LULZBank
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We ebola-ed some folks...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:11 | 5283857 LULZBank
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Not true, US only holds the patents.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:33 | 5283940 COSMOS
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We made ISIS, and Khorasans and all that other shit...  So Ebola, why not

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:41 | 5283964 LULZBank
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We are fightng the "savages" with "chicken pox."

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:31 | 5284777 Kirk2NCC1701
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This whole thing reads like a Clancy novel.  I do recall reading a novel very much like this a few years ago, but I can't remember the author or title.

The essence of the story was that some biotech company created both the disease and the cure, and came in to "Save the day" (to make billions) when they launched it.  Key Gov people were in on it, and stood to make hundreds of millions each.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:44 | 5283984 GC
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Spanish doctor was brought back home, given the same treatment given to teh American missionaries, but died on the 12th of August.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:09 | 5284930 Socratic Dog
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Spanish... not sure whether that really qualifies as "white".

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:55 | 5286111 mkhs
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But it was good enough for George Zimmerman?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:47 | 5284361 Dr Strangemember
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Was this cameraman banging infected hos?  How'd he get it????

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:31 | 5284525 Government need...
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The 'split hoe' law says erry day, erry brutha bangs 12 hoes, who in turn get split by 12 other bruthaz.  Add in the 'Dirrty Ice' law, which goes that 1 in 4 bruthaz/sistaz works in fast-food, including managing the ice supply, and you've got an epidemic of disastrous proportions in about 6 months.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:32 | 5284538 Dr Strangemember
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Mannnn!  I kan't be doin' no math lykk dat!  I gess u juss sae'in it a big old numbrr.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:12 | 5284949 Ratbagger
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would be pretty awesome if it was true

TOO BAD ITS NOT SO SHUT THE F UP 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:08 | 5284145 lakecity55
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"Dr. Synderman was flown back to the US today with primary Ebola Symptoms."

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:11 | 5284165 COSMOS
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50/50 chance which passport they pulled out of her purse, she could just as likely had been flown to Tel Aviv for treatment.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:19 | 5284477 Paveway IV
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Nope. Israel won't allow anyone in the country for treatment.

They already turned away some diplomat's plane this week because of a suspected case of ebola.

Dual-citizen U.S. congressmen responsible for creating ebola do not want their bug-out country contaminated.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:26 | 5284507 Government need...
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The Israeli's arent that stupid.  No, no, she comes to Amerika to die.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:21 | 5284736 Paveway IV
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You're looking at it backwards - Israel certainly IS that psychopathic. Here's a summary of their humanitarian response so far:

Israel rejects U.S. request on Ebola relief in Africa

Fearing Ebola, Israel will not send medical teams to Africa

Israel Refuses U.S. Request for Field Hospital to Aid Ebola Fight

Israeli hospitals are busy taking care of fake Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists so they can return to Lebanon to kill Lebanese. They don't have time to cure black people.

But how does the average Israeli feel about sending aid? Surely the people must want to help ebola victims. If you read the results of the following poll, you may even question that assumption:

POLL: 43% OF ISRAELIS WANT TO SEND OBAMA THE EBOLA VIRUS FOR HIS BIRTHDAY

I don't suppose those ass-hats would ever consider the possibility of sending back the $3.1 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars from this year, but they do take great delight in making terroristic threats against the life of the president of the United States for fun! F'king evil psychopaths.

The Israelis are interested in helping if they can get a piece of the big pharma action ($$$):

Protalix says it has the resources to produce experimental medicine ZMapp, which has run out elsewhere

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:38 | 5284820 Government need...
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Israelis take care of their own, first and foremost.  This sense of identity absolutely carries into the business world, and includes discriminatory elements (shop @ B&H in NYC for a clear example).  The identity can also includes punitive elements when directed to Israel's foreign policy (West Bank settlements, etc).  Of course they will accept funding from the US.  I suspect you would, too.  Of course Israel as a state fosters development of its industries, including pharma and other medical technolgies, many of which are related to its military tech program.  The US could take some notes on how Israel nurtures and helps its small, innovative, human-capital-intensive industries.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:11 | 5284944 Socratic Dog
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Send Obama the virus for his birthday? I have to say, I'm starting to like those israelis.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:14 | 5284960 Ratbagger
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I always knew they were smart. Glad to see some confirmation.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:36 | 5285161 Kirk2NCC1701
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Two things... 1. There's NOTHING wrong with "Taking care of your own, first and foremost", and is as it should be.  Alas, it is our hijacked and perverted culture and politicians who are addicted to this diseased version of "Christianity" that seeks to help everyone possible, every way possible, and every expense possible.  This kind of socialism that masks as a religion goes against the laws of Nature, because they are not sustainable and lead to Devolution of the gene pool, not its evolution.  The real Traitors are within: the so-called Liberal and Zionist "Christians" -- be they secular or clerical.

2. As for the links above, in the text of the first link (Israel rejects U.S. request on Ebola relief in Africa), it says that... "the Israeli non-governmental organization IsraAid, which receives support from U.S. Jews, met this week with the first lady of Sierra Leone and is in discussions with local authorities about how to provide psychological and social counseling and increase local health awareness."

See, using US money, they are "counseling" them, i.e. dispensing advice to others and getting paid for it.  That's typical of their culture: Never dispense advice for free, if you get someone to pay for it.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:05 | 5284723 Kirk2NCC1701
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These incoming Ebola cases can be stopped immediately if they route the US-bound flights via Diego Garcia and Tel Aviv.

Guaranteed not to have any cases arrive here.  And since we are the Bestest of Friends with Israel, maybe they'll take one for our team for a change?  / sarc

Seriously though, since Tel Aviv would send the sick ones right back or not let them in, they'd' just pile up in Diego Garcia, where they can be "treated" and disposed humanely.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:51 | 5284369 zuuma
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Dr. Nancy Snyderman. Yes.

That little witch was (and remains) a HUGE proponent of beloved OBAMACARE

If she really has it.....   KARMA!!!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:13 | 5284457 Winston Churchill
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May she leave us very, very slowly.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:26 | 5284502 Government need...
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Too bad about Nancy Snyderman going to quarantine.  Since her camera team is with her, can we get her to post some daily vid clips of her condition?  Since I'm NOT worrying about Ebola, I thought it might be nice to watch some human interest stories.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:52 | 5284620 disabledvet
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Now she can send daily video feeds of "my time versus Ebola...but how I firmly believe it's still safe to travel to West Africa!"

I'm just waiting for Brian Williams to contract the disease then watch the whole media complex/people flee from their studios in terror.

"Michael Bloomberg has Ebola. It was contracted when he stopped in on his after hours folks to see how the "after market" was trading....

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:06 | 5284688 Government need...
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If Bloomberg gets Ebola, I will rack my concealed weapon's slide in celebration.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:05 | 5284671 oklaboy
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so I guess it's still not airborne yet??? YSROW

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:33 | 5285051 Frank N. Beans
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if they're flying an ebola patient on an airplane then it certainly is airborne.

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:54 | 5285162 awakeRewe
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I hope his next job is the White House Press Pool.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 06:55 | 5283669 buzzsaw99
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dum fuk

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:05 | 5284686 oklaboy
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And why is US DoD Bio leading the charge?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:08 | 5285238 Kirk2NCC1701
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A: WW III.

QED.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:14 | 5283870 mrpxsytin
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If media staff are required to wear all this, how are they getting infected?

What to pack when traveling to an Ebola outbreak …: http://youtu.be/2jm9YoZW5IY

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:23 | 5283908 new game
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2 thoughts, he deserved it OR life taint fair...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 06:57 | 5283670 Sudden Debt
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I'm sorry but that shit is just to funny :)

OH LOOK!! A GUY WITH EBOLA!!! LET'S GO POKE HIM WITH A STICK!!

It all just sounds like that old panda story:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/11/24/us-china-panda-idUSTRE4AN5NF20...

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 06:54 | 5283671 Millivanilli
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Obama is airborne

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:43 | 5283687 GetZeeGold
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Speaking of airborne.....are humans a species?

http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:06 | 5283831 papaswamp
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Apparently pigs are a fantastic vector to spread the disease. Monkey to monkey not so much. The problem is, for obvious reasons, there is little actually known on human to human transmission. This particular strain seems to be a bit more successful at jumping around than previous....almost as if it had help.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:35 | 5283948 COSMOS
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MOSQUITOES any one?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:46 | 5284003 29.5
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Any expert care to elaborate if a mosquito is large enough to fit the ebola virus in its probe?

Filamentous 970 nm long for Ebolavirus. Diameter is about 80nm.

West Nile share a common size (40-60nm)

Seems ebola is much larger than the WNV, which can be spread thru mosquito

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:59 | 5284123 COSMOS
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Compare Ebola to Malaria (Plasmodium falciparum a single celled organism) which can be seen easily with a light microscope while Ebola and other viruses cant.  Last time I checked Malaria easily transmitted by Mosquitoes.....I dont blame you for wishing it to be true, but we are screwed.

If I lived anywhere close to that apt bldg where they quarantined that guy's family in Dallas, I would get the heck out of town.  I feel sorry for the cops watching them across the street.  Hope they use lots of bug spray.

To any naysayers about mosquitoes being able to transmit this virus, I challenge you to volunteer for getting bitten by a mosquito or fly that had a meal of some ebola ladened blood.

Lets also see this scenario.  Fly lands on sheets full of ebola secretions, fly goes out of apt and lands on the other end of your hot dog, hmmmm...yummy spicy ebola...

Folks this has the potential to spread many different ways, and give the high population densities of major cities in the USA, well you have seen the movies...

This is one scenario where being self sufficient and surrounded by lots of people free real estate is a good thing...

Mosquito species preferring to breed around the house, like the Asian Tiger Mosquito, have limited flight ranges of about 300 feet. Most species have flight ranges of 1-3 miles. Certain large pool breeders in the Midwest are often found up to 7 miles from known breeding spots

According to an unreferenced comment in a report prepared by the ADAS consultancy, in extreme cases the common housefly can travel 20km.  However, nuisance from flies from a source (such as a landfill site) is rarely reported more than 2km away.  Common house flies are not all that affected by wind, as they tend to move closer to the ground when it is windy.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:38 | 5285082 Miffed Microbio...
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There are many suppositions in your argument. Malaria has a very complex life cycle. The mosquito doesn't just transport malaria form one place to another. It is the sexual component which occurs inside the mosquito's body. Humans are the asexual phase. The mosquito must pick up both gametocytes for sexual union to complete. As a microbiologist it is difficult to identify the species of plasmodium ( critical for treatment) because these gametocytes migrate to the capillaries so the mosquito can pick them up. Convenient.

Ebola doesn't have a life cycle in an organism. No separate phases. This is pure replication. The key is determining if it can survive inside the mosquito to use this as a vector and be transferred effectively. I will not volunteer to do this study. Sorry, my life is at risk enough now with just basic clinical work.

Miffed

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 17:21 | 5286215 COSMOS
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Not many if barely any suppositions actually, viruses dont replicate inside mosquitoes. Mosquito temps are lower than in a human being probably on the order of the environment (dont forget Ebola can survive on items with secretions).  The viruses are just along for the ride.  Really all we need to know here is that they, the mosquitoes, are cold blooded.  So that meal it takes is just like secretions coughed or vomited or bled out all over the place.  So basically a mosquito is a package to carry a secretion much further than it can be projected by the patient.  Also the discussion was about the size of the infectious agent that can go through a mosquito probosces, last time I checked plasmodium is bigger than these viruses and mosquitoes can transmit plasmodium.  Your going deeper to say plasmodium needs the mosquito for part of its life cycle has nothing to do with the FACT that the mosquito can transmit malaria and what goes up or down through the probosces is bigger than viral particles including red blood cells that are 6 to 8 microns that is 8,000nm in size (1 micron is 1000nm).  Also many RNA viruses are transmitted by insects, like Dengue and Yellow Fever for example, members of Flavivirus genus of RNA viruses, so it is not like viruses cant travel up and down the probosces of a mosquito.  SO this brings us back to first base, anyone want to be a test subject in the room with the mosquitoes engorged on ebola blood or the flies that have landed in ebola secretions, I sure dont want to step on first base and I understand your desire not to also.

Blood-sucking mosquitoes keep their cool

No one likes being bitten by whining mosquitoes, but have you ever considered what the experience is like for them as their cold-blooded bodies fill with our warm blood? Now researchers reporting online on December 15 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have uncovered the mosquitoes' secret to avoiding heat stress: they give up cooling droplets of their hard-won meals.

The study shows for the first time that blood-feeding insects are capable of controlling their body temperature, the researchers say.

"During feeding on a warm-blooded host, such as a human being, mosquitoes ingest quite a large amount of hot blood in a short period of time," said Claudio Lazzari of Université François Rabelais. "We aimed to determine to what extent these insects are exposed to the risk of overheating during the blood intake."

Mosquitoes have to be quick, lest their host turns into a potential predator, Lazzari points out. But that influx of heat could send their internal body temperature soaring past physiological limits.

Insects' body temperatures generally do depend on the environment around them. However, earlier studies have shown that insects, including bees and aphids, can control their temperature with beads of nectar or sap. Mosquitoes, too, will give up drops of fluid during feeding.

"What intrigued us was why they eliminate fresh blood, which is a precious and risky-to-obtain nutritive element," Lazzari said.

To find out, he and Chloé Lahondère used a camera that depends on heat to form images, much as a regular camera depends on light. Those images highlighted differences in temperature between the body parts of mosquitoes as they fed. Their heads reached temperatures close to that of the ingested blood, while the rest of their bodies remained closer to ambient temperature. That temperature variation wasn't observed when mosquitoes dined on sugar water instead.

The researchers showed that the cooling depended on those drops of fluid the insects excrete from their backsides as they feed. Lazzari and Lahondère say that the mosquitoes' strategy no doubt protects them and any malaria-causing (Plasmodium) parasites they might be carrying. The new understanding of mosquito physiology is more than a curiosity; it could lead to strategies aimed to control mosquitoes and the diseases they spread.

"Blocking or delaying the production of the excreted fluid would have a double impact on the physiology of mosquitoes: on water and thermal balance," Lazzari said. "Indirectly, this would affect microorganisms transmitted by insects by modifying the thermal environment to which they are exposed."

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:25 | 5284499 zuuma
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"Apparently pigs are a fantastic vector to spread the disease. Monkey to monkey not so much."

..so in cultures which have sex with pigs & monkeys (& eat bats),

it would be best to alternate between the pigs and the monkeys vs. exclusively having sex with the pigs.

And start eating more corn dogs (or real dogs, like Barak Ebola), instead of bats.

 

-check!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:19 | 5283883 LULZBank
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Obama would be cussing his parents to give him a surname that rhymes with a known alleged terrorist and a killer virus.

Whocoulda thunk that?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:46 | 5284357 Yes We Can. But...
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Ironic, since Davis is very likely his father, not Obama.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:30 | 5284514 zuuma
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yup.

Sometimes in some places, Father's Day can be a big mystery.

 

Barak Hussein Osama-Davis-Ebola

 

Perhaps a musical card.

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:34 | 5283944 krispkritter
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This country was infected with Obola 6 years ago and the patient is barely hanging on...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:44 | 5283977 LULZBank
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Obola spread from a Bush monkey, so they say.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:29 | 5285323 Kirk2NCC1701
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@Millivanilli: "Obama is airborne"

That's "President Obola" to you.  Now lip-synch it till you got it, Millivanilli.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 06:59 | 5283675 gswifty
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What i want to know is why did Mitchell Levy name his son Ashoka Mukpo?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:36 | 5283740 overexposed
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Perhaps not Mitchell's fault.  A case of extreme self-loathing, something not uncommon amongst the white population of our angst-ridden hard-leftwing newsrooms?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:37 | 5283744 fockewulf190
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The dude probably changed his name because he came down with jungle fever long before he came down with ebola fever.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:55 | 5283785 SilverIsKing
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But there is no cure for jungle fever.

Once you go...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:13 | 5283865 fishmonger
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Once you go black, you become a single mom??

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:29 | 5284259 FuzzyDunlop21
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Jungle fever? That sounds more like the black plague

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:43 | 5284585 Government need...
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With a name like that, the 'Split Hoe' law applies, as it regards to Ebola transmission.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:10 | 5283851 Prometheus the ...
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It's complicated. Mukpo is the family name of the Tibetan teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Asoka is the son of Dianna Mukpo, Trungpa's wife and Mithcell Levy who she was having an affair with. Trungpa accepted Ashoka as his own. Mukpo is a Tibetan name and has nothing to do with Africa.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:09 | 5284196 gswifty
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I'm an ardent admirer of Chogyam Trungpa's writings, especially Shambala. I knew the name was tibetan, not african. i just figured Mitch Jr. changed his name because he converted to Buddism. Thanks for that personal information. Very interesting, cheers!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:45 | 5283993 shovelhead
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Fucks sake...

Transgendered is bad enough.

Now we got to put up with trans-genetic?

"I was an Indian trapped in a Jewish body."

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 06:59 | 5283676 nmewn
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Look! No SQUIRRELS!!!

"The IRS concealed information it should have released in response to an estimated 336 requests in 2013, according to the report.

Despite its findings, TIGTA did not issue any recommendations. The watchdog instead suggested IRS officials implement the recommendations laid out in last year's review before addressing its latest findings.

On Sept. 17, the non-partisan government watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a motion in its ongoing FOIA lawsuit against the IRS for documents related to the recovery of records the agency claims have been "lost and/or destroyed" since news of the conservative targeting scandal broke.

Judicial Watch claims the IRS has filed seven declarations omitting information it was required to release since the group first filed its FOIA requests in May 2013."

http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2554269/

Now if Judicial Watch staffers came down with ebola it would be on the front page above the fold.

Think about it ;-)

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:01 | 5283678 lordbyroniv
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Flying people infected with Ebola back into the US results in the spread of Ebola in the US?

 

GO FIGURE!!!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:20 | 5283717 GetZeeGold
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Cause our medical community.....is just that freakin good!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:23 | 5284488 Winston Churchill
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Seems the ebola virus is unimpressed by American exceptionalism.

Next we will find out God isn't from Desmoines, and doesn't play baseball.

Whocouldhavenode.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:34 | 5284782 IndyPat
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Apparently that fat bloated rummy, Bob Fuckin' Beckle "node" all about this.

Right on time, too. Surprise Bitchez! It's a Happy Ebola Ass Blood Red October for all. They really like doing zany hijinx like this in October election years. That fat piece of shit drunk said he had a big secret...said it with a big MadDog 20/20 soaked smile, too. Please...just let him get this before me. That's all I ask. That, and maybe the cure, too...but that's all. Really.
I hope he is reduced to drinking sterno when shit goes totally sideways, as he is sitting it the gutter waiting for his chest buster to finish growing inside him and rip out.

Matzeltov!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:21 | 5283720 ebworthen
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Quick!  Send more journalists down to the country with an epidemic and unsanitary conditions to cover the story!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:40 | 5283748 CaptainMoonlight
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Obama wants us all dead, it is obvious.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:01 | 5283814 kw2012
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When you say "us" I assume you mean privileged  legal middle class working citizens of largely Christian faith.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:21 | 5283898 StupidEarthlings
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The isis scare wasnt working fast enough.

This ebola terrorist seems to be working though. The main reason you can tell is cause its all over mainstream.  Suckers.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:10 | 5283679 Dr. Engali
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Good thing it's well contained and there is no possible way it could be airborne. If it's not airborne, how did he get it? Was he eating fruit bats or fucking the natives? He's a camera man, they're usually distanced from the action.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:11 | 5283697 jcaz
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Exactly- and I'm sure he wasn't cautioned to swap spit with everything in site,  and was merrily walking around taking zero precautions, because he was safe in the knowledge that he could ONLY contract it via CDC guidelines......

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:25 | 5283729 GetZeeGold
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Word is they warned him about the fruit bats....but he just wouldn't listen.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:41 | 5283962 RafterManFMJ
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Mmmmmmm..... citrusy.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:00 | 5284657 ebear
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"walking around"

There's your answer

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:31 | 5283733 TrumpXVI
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I was a commercial photographer for over twenty years.  A cameraman's life is all about schlepping.  My guess is that someone who was infected probably helped him with his gear.  This is unavoidable in a third world country.  Helping people carry and move shit is half of the economy in these places.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:55 | 5283789 tony wilson
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fuck off most cameramen are degenerate perverts some psychopaths.

they fuck anything with or without a pulse.

these people are  all fucking cia mossad agents.

when not filming news shit they will be filming eyes wide shut rape parties for soros ngo.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:56 | 5283792 negative rates
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No he walked into someone elses filth and brought it home with him.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:04 | 5283684 papaswamp
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Wait they hired him on Tuesday and began showing symptoms on Wednesday? That means he was exposed before they hired him.... Something seems a bit off.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:04 | 5283685 nmewn
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NBC is busy "doctoring" his taped hiring interview even as we speak ;-)

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:08 | 5283691 ParkAveFlasher
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He was living in Liberia for three years.  So yes, he could have developed a taste for fruit bat.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:19 | 5283715 SpanishGoop
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Don't fuck with the fruit bats !

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:45 | 5284349 StychoKiller
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Some guys really get into that high-pitched squealin'!  Just saying...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:36 | 5283730 Flagit
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Ashoka Mukpo's Overview

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ashoka-mukpo/35/702/a60

Contact Ashoka for:
  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • job inquiries
Ashoka Mukpo's Projects "Smell-no-Taste" - Research report on Natural Resource Management in Liberia
  • March 2011 to Present
Team Members: Ashoka Mukpo, Frazer Lanier,

120-page qualitative report on the human rights and political economic implications of modern day natural resource policy in post-conflict Liberia.

 

Liberia: Land Deals with Foreign Firms Could Sow Future Conflict
  • February 2012 to February 2012
Team Members: Ashoka Mukpo

Coverage of report I co-authored, published online by The Guardian. Quoted in the body.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:45 | 5283985 tony wilson
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120-page qualitative report on the human rights and political economic implications of modern day natural resource policy in post-conflict Liberia.

 

resource policy A

is that like resources?

the profile photo above is classic sandy hook zionist psy operations.

his name is a multiculturalism yiddish joke.

bill gates has to get a goy return on his investments as well as killing off some useless eaters.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:44 | 5283763 papaswamp
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Im wondering if it was a case of ' oh shit Ive been exposed and feel a bit sick, Ill go to the US for free HC on NBCs dime.' Or NBC might even have agreed to it to have an exclusive. How many others are going to start heading for the US or other more advanced countries to get treatment? Lie about exposure etc..

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:24 | 5283910 smithcreek
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That was my exact thought.  NBC hired him because he had already contracted the disease.  He'll be the next bubble-boy.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:47 | 5285398 Kirk2NCC1701
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IMO, if he's been there for a while, that it's far more likely that this apple did not fall far from the fruit tree, and he followed in his father's (Mithcell Levy) footsteps (see

5283851 above):  he shagged the local religious leader's wife, who got it from her oh-so-religious husband, who shagged and ate everything in site.  Follow the basic drives of human nature.

Given his "family" or tribal connections, he got "hired", just so they could fly him to the US for treatment.  Or he omitted/warped this fact when he decided to "interview for the job".  Nice.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:37 | 5283741 CaptainMoonlight
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Agreed

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:16 | 5283877 youngman
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Yes..that was a good hire...now NBChas to hire a private jet to bring him home.....cost $30,000 and hour....and expnsive hospital stay...$50,000 a day or more....good job NBC...but I suspect that was this guys plan...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:47 | 5284002 RafterManFMJ
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Did they not hire Web Hubble's daughter, Chelsea Clinton? When propaganda or bribery's the goal, money is no object.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:58 | 5284391 nc551
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I bet it is all well worth ratings bump NBC received when news spread one of their guys ( even if already living there for years and employed 1 day ) catching it.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:51 | 5285425 Kirk2NCC1701
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Youngman, it's good to remember this Aphorism:  "It's not just what you know, but WHO you know."

If you're a Team (read "Tribe") Player or Citizen for the Empire, different rules apply than for the Unwashed Masses.

Moral:  Do a better job picking your parents.  If that doesn't work, do a better job of picking Religions or Memberships.  ;-)  ;-)

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:49 | 5283918 tony wilson
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hired on tuesday downed on wed.

the jewish man who could be friday might not make monday

once you understand the machine it makes sense.

cern moon saturn

time

rabbi tora bora talmudicks

numeracy numbers kabbala magick

tues or wed or last satans day it will all come out in the tesla wash

higs bosun is gatekeeper bollox

the bloke in the wheel chair with the funny voice can walk

and his real voice sounds a little like hugh grant

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:06 | 5283689 ParkAveFlasher
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COLLOIDAL SILVER, BITCHEZ

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:18 | 5283710 Bioscale
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It's been explained in details here or on other webs that colloidal silver does not help against ebola. I wish silver had that power, but it doesn't.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:20 | 5283719 papaswamp
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Great for vampires...in bullet form.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:49 | 5284014 RafterManFMJ
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Pussy.

Silver Katana FTV.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:46 | 5284353 Citxmech
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I think silver bullets are for werewolves.

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:44 | 5283751 sleigher
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Please explain these news stories then.  Why are they stopping it if it is worthless?

http://www.topworldheadlines.com/2014/10/advocate-says-that-governments-...

I am asking as I am curious.  Not challenging your position.  

What about the DoD threat assessment study that says it did kill the virus?  Is that bogus?  Again, I am asking to get better info on the subject.

Googling provides the DoD study and the FDA saying it is BS.

 

 

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:48 | 5283769 papaswamp
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That article makes all kinds of claims. ' classified govt docs' where are they? Natural news as a source isnt exactly top of the line basis for a scientific article. They make claims but link to no scientific studies.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:00 | 5283805 SilverIsKing
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If it's true, perhaps it's part of the effort to keep a lid on the price of silver.

If everyone begins to panic and rush to buy colloidal silver, what impact would that have on the supplies of physical silver and its price?

Just a thought.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:09 | 5283843 p00k1e
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Silver is either pricing in colloidal silver doesn’t work or about 2,000,000,000 are….

“Walking the Mile…”
“Walking the Mile…”

“Walking the Mile…”

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:16 | 5283875 papaswamp
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Dont think it will impact it much since very little silver is actually needed. Silver is interesting since it has industrial applications. Its drop coupled with oils dropping signals a big slowdown in the economy which I think we will see in the next few months.
Dollar strength and of course market manipulation have alot to do with it too. Frankly the low price just makes for an easier buying opportunity in my book. I doubt we will see an increase in PMs any time soon barring a financial crisis. Supply compression will probably begin in 6 months and prices will begin to turn around. Other countries of course are snapping it up...just the US that is screwed up.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:20 | 5283893 Lux Fiat
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One has to take Natural News with a massive dose of salt.  However, over the years, in between rolling my eyes over some articles, I've run across things that years later were accepted in the MSM, with research backing them up.  One has to keep an open mind, and do their own due diligence.

Take the Seralini study on gmo corn.  One would expect that given the potential implications, other scientists would attempt to replicate his study and see if they get the same results, or not.  Instead, there was an almost successful attempt to bury the study altogether, which potentially could  threaten billions in agricultural profits.  Hmmm...  The research done so far is not entirely conclusive, but given the reaction to it from certain quadrants, I would say there's a good chance that where there is smoke, there is fire.  As a precaution, I have adjusted food purchases accordingly.  The late John Yudkin's trials and tribulations come to mind.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:36 | 5284276 tony wilson
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papaswamp fuck off if collodial silver is beautiful stuff

low voltage made at hoem is the way to go only using distilled water.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:58 | 5284061 pods
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I have personally never seen any antiviral effect of CS and I have used it for years. 

For (undiagnosed) viral infections I have seen little benefit. I have used oral, gargle, and throat and nasal sprays.  Green tea extract helps though for a viral infection though, as does Vitamin D.

For bacterial infections, CS is fantastic and is becoming more accepted. I even found a topical CS gel the last time I was stocking up a first aid kit.

pods

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:34 | 5283932 tony wilson
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collodial silver does not work you say ok doc

we should not take it then it would be a waste A

avoid massive doses of vitamin c

do not bother making your own liposomal vit c

forget about lugols iodine.

bicarbonate of soda and epsom salts are a waste of time

a small ebay ozone water maker device is pointless.

yes bioscale

we should take your rabbinical advice and take the bill gates patented vaccine shot.

eustace mullins was wrong in murder by injection

these big pharma cunts love us.

 

fuck you : )

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 08:46 | 5283997 LULZBank
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Only Tony can say "fuck you" with a smile like that, after a long rant.

;D

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:40 | 5283746 PirateOfBaltimore
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Have fun turning into a smurf:

http://www.silvermedicine.org/argyria_man.jpg

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:57 | 5283794 p00k1e
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A new Blue Man Group? 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:02 | 5284106 pods
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He generated his own, and never controlled dose.

Argyria is a very real possibility.  

If you do wish to make your own "CS" you can check whether you are making silver ions (which many people are) by adding a bit of salt water to your "CS."

If you see a precipitate you have silver ions in solution and this same thing is going to happen when you ingest it.

For me, the risk is not worth it at the present time. I can buy CS from 20 places local or have an Amazon drone bring it to me.

If we are talking about SHTF preps, fine. But for everyday use forget it.

pods

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:37 | 5284311 shovelhead
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On the other hand, of note to budding (ha) Colorado marijuana growers, colloidal silver is an effective blunt instrument approach to getting a fertilized female plant to produce only feminine seeds.

Very handy if you sell seeds to other growers or don't want to waste limited growing space with regular seeds only to discard the useless males once they show sex.

I don't ingest colloidal silver for it's reputed antibiotic properties. I rely on the scientifically proven use of a .999 fine silver cock ring.

No Ebola yet.

No female werewolves either.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:58 | 5285451 Kirk2NCC1701
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"COLLOIDAL SILVER, BITCHEZ"

Forget the /sarc/ tags?  Allow me...

KINETIC LEAD, BITCHEZ!  100% effective against spread of Ebola. /sarc

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 07:09 | 5283692 Mongoose
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It'll be interesting to see how the mainstream press handles this one.

And, it'll get more interesting if anyone else in the entourage has been infected.

Hmmm, is there going to be a FOIA request to CDC for transcripts of interviews of the infected persons and investigation results regarding likely infection pathways? What is the current take on transmission modes of ebola? Is that hypothesis evolving?

What to believe, what to believe?

 

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